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For Fall 2025, we are looking for participants from the following groups:

  • Native English speakers
  • Native Spanish speakers, Heritage Spanish Speakers, and Second Language Learners of Spanish
  • Native English speakers that are L2 learners of Portuguese

Recruiting Mandarin/American English speakers!

Study Requirements:

If you are between the ages of 18 and 40 and your first language is Mandarin or American English, you may be eligible to participate in a research study designed to better understand the complex processes of learning and understanding speech in a second language.

Are you eligible: adults 18-40 years of age; your first language is Mandarin or American English; current or former student at a US university.

Study requirements: meet with researcher for one session online (Zoom) or in-person (Indiana University IUB Campus). If participating online, must have access to a laptop or desktop, wired headphones, reliable Wifi, and use of one of the following web browsers: Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. You can visit www.sadiphillips.page and click on ‘Participate in Research’ for more information or to sign-up.

Study Procedure and Information:

A free sorting task where you will listen to and move audio files on a screen into groups of similar sounding files. Listening to audio files and deciding if what you heard was a real word or a non-word. A two-party survey: Demographic and language background survey, Word familiarity survey, A multiple-choice vocabulary task, Answer a few questions about your experience directly after completion of the tasks.

Compensation:

$20 upon completion of the study

Researcher Contact Information:

sadiphil@iu.edu/+1 304 539 1515 (WhatsApp or SMS)

Recruiting Portuguese learners!

Study Requirements:

At least 18 years old, Currently living in the U.S., Native speaker of American English, Began learning Portuguese after age 12, Completed at least one full semester of Portuguese classes, Not required to be enrolled in a Portuguese course at the moment, No known speech or hearing difficulties

Study Procedure and Information:

This study is conducted remotely via videoconference. A researcher will meet with you online while you are at home or in a quiet place and will guide you through a series of language tasks. The session will last approximately one hour, scheduled at a mutually convenient time and date.

Compensation:

$15

Researcher Contact Information:

ysibucks@iu.edu

Invitation to Participate in an Online Experiment

You are invited to participate in an online linguistic experiment conducted by a Brazilian researcher. This study aims to explore some aspects of English language acquisition. 

Study Requirements:

Native speaker of English

Study Procedure and Information:

The meeting will be held in English and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Compensation:

Please note that, as per Brazilian regulations, participation is voluntary and there will be no financial compensation. Your contribution, however, will be extremely valuable for the advancement of our research!

Researcher Contact Information:

If you are interested or would like further information, please click on the link below: [https://forms.gle/8xWSTJdkgCta1h1k9] or feel free to contact the researcher directly.

Rosiani Bueno Dias

Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil

Email: rosiani.oliveira@usp.br

Phone number: +5511970523499

Recruiting Native English Speakers

Study Requirements:

Native speaker of English

Study Procedure and Information:

Participants are invited to take part in a linguistic experiment conducted in English which takes between 40 and 60 minutes to complete.

Compensation:

$12 Amazon Gift Card

Researcher Contact Information:

Please click the following link for more information about the study or to participate.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PCBjcJeIHIfVHJMJ1rWxUdivbdvJKV-b/view?usp=sharing

Recruiting Native English Speakers with Chinese proficiency

Study Requirements:

Native speakers of English with Chinese proficiency at ACTFL Intermediate Mid, equivalent to CEFR A2, HSK Level 4,  TOCFL Level 2 (Basic), or TBCL Level 3+ (above 3).

Study Procedure and Information:

Participants are invited to take part in a linguistic experiment conducted in Chinese which takes between 40 and 60 minutes to complete.

Compensation:

$12 Amazon Gift Card

Researcher Contact Information:

Please click the following link for more information about the study or to participate.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YAU5Prm0J2BXwQNfOD5oOSrnMGO-WMYq/view?usp=sharing

Seeking English and Spanish-speaking participants for research study

We are conducting a study to learn how people of different language backgrounds read and process sentences in English.

Requirements: We are looking for Native English speakers aged 18 and older who have do NOT have Spanish language experience.

Native Spanish speakers aged 18 and older, who learned English after the age of 7, and have at least intermediate proficiency in English.

Participation: This study involved 2 hours of online activities, which can be completed in one 2-hour session or two 1-hour sessions, at the participant’s convenience. This study can be completed from any laptop or desktop computer with an internet connection. You will be asked to read and answer questions about sentences, to complete a sentence judgment task, to complete a fill-in-the-blank activity, and to answer questions about your language background. 

Compensation: $25 or extra credit in courses which allow you to receive extra credit for participating in Linguistics studies (permission of your instructor required).

Contact: Amelia Tighe, amtighe2@illinois.edu

To see if you are eligible, fill out this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXzVxKA-4sVza6P2eln1QiisC7EZh-a_n9bUKR0u8P8TTZpg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Native speakers, Heritage Speakers, and Second Language Learners of Spanish:

Spanish Speakers Needed for a Fun Experiment!

Requirements: We are looking for the following speaker profiles for a Word learning Experiment:
  • Native Speakers of Spanish: defined as individuals who grew up in a Spanish-speaking country, speaking ONLY Spanish before puberty (ages 1-12).
  • Heritage speakers of Spanish: defined as individuals who grew up in the United States speaking Spanish at home and acquired English mostly at school and/or simultaneously with Spanish. 
  • Second-Language Learners of Spanish: defined as individuals whose first language is English and who started learning Spanish in the classroom after age 12. Second-language learners of Spanish should only know English and Spanish. If you have knowledge of other languages such as Portuguese, Hindi, Greek, German, or any other additional language you may not qualify. Reach out to researchers if you are unsure whether you qualify or not.
Participation: This experiment takes place via Zoom. The entire study takes about 1.5hrs to complete. Participation is completely voluntary, and you may withdraw at any time.
 
Description: During the study, You will be asked to play a memory game by learning new words in Spanish. Then, you will complete a series of oral and visual tasks using words in Spanish. You will also fill out a language background questionnaire and a proficiency test. 
 
Compensation: You will receive $15 at the end of the study as a reward, payable via Zelle or Venmo.
 

To find out if you are eligible to complete the study, click on the recruitment link below! You may also contact Danny Melendez at dannydm2@illinois.edu for more information.

 
https://illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5sE3RR26GRx46Ts 

Other UIUC labs that recruit participants for language studies

Educational Psychology Subject Pool

UIUC Electrophysiology and Language Processing Lab (sign-up page)

Educational Psychology Psycholinguistics Lab (sign-up page)

Illinois Phonetics & Phonology Lab (G90, FLB): for example, they are looking for Spanish native speakers

Please fill out the google form at the following link to have your studies posted here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCIrS5xmfvt5-_8XCNygRgWEPqhR-BgSWPOCPBIzI3p496ww/viewform?usp=dialog